THE NEW YORKER 5 t t -", <!. , ./ æ: " \ ,,< \ \ ..;;>" ". +." --... '^ oQo' .:. . ---.... .. Ilr.? "' I 'M .. % v I ... I " ... Þ:' , ,. ., > . .0(0 , '" . . ........ . .. S : '-'>>['^'. :(; oO-.': "0-- . . <-:. 17 , \ ><f 'it .".,.. ....:.. H-....,, . ,' J \. . . .' ",Toe0( "Do you want to hear the crowd going crazy in Times Square?" one kid, and I am presIdent of the Greek Orthodox Community of St. Gerasimos. Ever since the age of eight- een, I have been getting ideas. Don't misunderstand. I don't claim to have invented the atomic bomb or anything." City Folk D RIFTING bv the St. James Thea- tre last week, Just before an eve- ning performance of "Li'l Abner," . . we saw an agitated young man in dungarees rush into the stage entrance bearing a couple of noisy and indig- nant geese. As theIr honks echoed up and down Forty-fourth Street, where the St. James is situated, we came upon a crowd debouching from Sardi's, and among the group were a couple of stout, gray-haired, ruddy, well-tailored gen- tlemen. "Speaking of cars, George," said one of them, "do you know, I thought for a moment I heard the horn we had on the old Locomobile, back in 1 912 " "Nonsense," said his companion. "They don't permit that sort of thing any more-not even if it's only a French squeaker." G. B. S. D ID vou know that Shaw had a miserable childhood? That his social thinking was influenced early in life by Dickens, through "Little Dor-